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PCs Offer 'Better Gaming Experience Than 100% of Mac Laptops,' Intel Claims in Ongoing Anti-Apple Campaign
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Why would developers support a platform that completely refuses to as good graphics to it’s hardware? The M1 has diabolical graphics compared to almost anything.
nobody will game on a Mac until this is fixed.
I think Apple realised the mistake of aligning to the "open" standards versus Microsoft's proprietary approach with DirectX which became the default on Windows. Apple have since decided to own their own graphics API in Metal, they've deprecated OpenGL and they also deprecated OpenAL. They've also worked to beef up libraries that support gaming like GameKit, SceneKit, SpriteKit and a few more.
This has also been a challenge for Microsoft because when it first launched it's ARM based devices, the lack of backwards compatibility was unexpected and contributed to it being a failure because why would you buy the Windows computer that didn't run your Windows app? Microsoft have been working on getting the backwards compatibility to work, now with both 32-bit and 64-bit emulation support on ARM, but they're investing in making that happen and that's a cost for them to remain in the business.
Those commercials are just about bragging rights. Bottom line, what percentage of Intel’s sales was selling CPU and other chips to Apple specifically for the Mac?
I agree. Those are some awesome games. I’ve also put way too many hours into Rimworld, Oxygen Not Included, Stellaris, Hearts of Iron 4, Europa Universalis 4, Crusader Kings 2 & 3, Software Inc. and Prison Architect which can all run on very modest GPUs.
Cyberpunk was so bad that I got it refunded on Steam!
AAA games have really gone down hill. The latest batch turned out to be so meh that I’m not sure I’ll bother with whatever comes out by the end of this year. I can’t get myself to play something at 8k raytraced with 120+ fps if the gameplay is some uninspired crap. Only thing I consider a must have is the Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker expansion because the story is amazing and I love the setting plus it gives me the World of Warcraft vibe from before Blizzard turned WoW into crap.
Still, I’m into flight sims and when running a 32:9 aspect super ultrawide at 5120x1440p which is effectively the same as 4K, then you need all the power you can get and no mac is going to deliver that. I use my Apple products for surfing, media consumption and productivity. My PC is gaming only. It’s a glorified console that can play and do the things a console can’t. Also keeps my sensitive stuff separate.
They (Intel) would be sued for false advertising where I live, that is, if Intel would advertise here in the way they do like in the U.S.
One thing Apple could do is to fully embrace eGPUs, but th
I don't see cloud gaming making a big splash with the PC gaming crowd. And there are about as many PC gamers out in the world as there are console gamers.
PC gaming was less popular during the PS3/360 era, but that was almost ten years ago.
Browser gaming is about 6 or 7% of PC gaming according to Newzoo. And Minecraft is big on consoles as well.
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I don't see cloud gaming making a big splash with the PC gaming crowd. And there are about as many PC gamers out in the world as there are console gamers.
PC gaming was less popular during the PS3/360 era, but that was almost ten years ago.
Browser gaming is about 6 or 7% of PC gaming according to Newzoo. And Minecraft is big on consoles as well.
Newzoo: Global game market will shrink in 2021 for first time in many years
Tthe global video game industry is forecast to shrink slightly in 2021, according to a new report from game and esports data firm Newzoo.
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You are so damn right, There are so many times there are issues with Windows.
I need to work with that crap (Yes it still is) on a daily bases.....and it sucks big time, there's not a single day without problems.
Just a single example, why does the built in picture viewer has just one direction icon to flip a picture, only clockwise, MS....WHY oh WHY.
Bonus, another one, why is there not a single default printing dialogue window....
Yeah I see that, sadly none of the starwars games are available via xcloud.Its on XCloud, so you can play it on whatever you want
As a PC gamer, I honestly have never really cared for any of the console games or wanted any of them to make it to PC. It's all to do with the fact that console gamers are still stuck on their noobstick controllers. I play a ton of first person shooter games with a mouse, so this is where consoles really fail for me. That said, the only games I've ever been interested to come to PC are; Gran Turismo (will probably NEVER happen) and Resistance games.
And no, PC Gaming is not going to get niche... everyone's been saying that for years or decades. PC Gaming hasn't gone anywhere and never will; the hardware will always be better and thus the games will always have an edge over consoles.
You pretty much answered your own question when you said "Not being a gamer at all". If you’ve been gaming long enough, you’ll start to see a pattern. New doesn’t mean better… just prettier and ever so slightly different (not always for the better). You’ll also notice another pattern. That the latest greatest AAA titles are either over market and over hyped unfinished bug infested disasters or (sometimes both) designed specifically to milk you for the most money they can get away with. You know something is up before you even buy the damn thing when the game advertizes that you can skip content by buying the deluxe edition!
... Apple, please rebuttal at WWDC. I know this isn't your market *yet* but it could be in the future if you would just dump some of those really big money bags you have on it.
haha. Me too. And an NVIDIA graphics card. That and my ipad pro cover every eventuality I have.
I do have a $2K X1 Carbon provided by work. I wanted to enjoy it but it seems to be not as good at anything. It also has a slow battery drain so every time I pick it up it is dead.
Right? Like why can't they give Sony tons of money for Uncharted 4 to be a macOS (iPadOS) exclusive?
Hehe better not overuse the butterfly keyboard, save the characters for something that worth arguing, e.g Epic law suit 😉. Macs incl. macOS sucks for games and always did. These games even worked better on DOS and Win95. Get a Mac of the same game release year and see how it sucked compared to any beige box of the same year. Just because today’s mac can run a 30 year old game, does not make it better, even a 50$ raspberry pi can run these.
I‘m glad I’m not the only one bothered by this. I had already begun suspecting that this is a creation of my fellow Germans who are too stupid to distinguish between those words, as they have the same root in German (game = Spiel, player = Spieler).
I couldn’t agree more. Someone early on asked “who buys Macs for gaming?”
*raises hand*
This is like saying "Dogs are 100% better at fetching than cats!" This should be filed under "duh".
Uncharted 4 on an iPad? I don't even think that is possible. The game would have to be downgraded immensely. Sony has more pride in their first party games to do that.
TRUTH!!!
The only Mac with a decent GPU is the Mac Pro, and that costs literally a fortune... not to mention, those 5000 series are already dated. Anyone that wants to do any gaming is better off building a Hackintosh and slapping in a 6800/6800 XT or 6900 XT in there and going to town.
It's amazing how much Apple disrespects gamers.